Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-11-28

SPECIAL oonnrsroNpENoE OF THE MONITOR.
Washington. Noe. 22d

Washington. Noe. 22d.
Bv actual count there are now sew,
enty-five congressman at the Capital,
and the list is heightened on the ar,
rival of nearly every train. Among
the most prominent of the members
have noticed on the Avenue CHAT
Pennsylvania Avenue-so called by
all Washingtonians) Messrs. Voor-
bees. Harrison, Edmunds and Evarts
of the senate, and Messrs. Carlisle,
Springer, Breckenridge and Daven-
port of the House. Two other re-
markable men and notable figures
who are often seen on the streets are
the ex-president of the senate and
the president of the senate, John
Sherman and John j ingalls,. The
stately form of the Ohio senator is
seldom seen outside of his carriage
on the streets, while on the other
hand, the long, willowy figure of the
picturesque Kansan can often be seen
mingling with the throngs that fire.
quent the thOroughfares of this beau
tiful city. If one wishes to catch a
glimpse occasionally of most of the
national salons, the best place to
take a stand, outside of the Capitol
itself, is in the corridors of the differ
ent departments, near the doors of
the secretary's office. When a COM
mon mortal, like you or /, dear read
er, would enter the awe-inspiring
presence of a cabinet minister, the
obliging door-keeper always hands
out a card, with blanks, wherein we
are required to state ''name and ma
ture of business, aud send it in by
a messenger, before there is the
slightest chance for admission; but,
when a member as they are popu-
larly known, appears, the door flies
open as if by magic by the time he is
in six feet of it.
1t is said that Mr.. Carlisle, pre-
Stunning on his election as speaker,
which nobody doubts, is casting
about for suitable material for con-
gressional committees-a task which
will tax the great tact and skill of
the Kentucky statesman to accom-
plish satisfactorily, as there are
hundred or more new men to place
a great number of the ablest and
most experienced congressman having
been relegated to the peaceful walks
of private life.
AS foreshadowed in my last letter,
the resignation Of commissioner of
the land office, Sparks, has taken
place, the president letting down the
arrogant and rebellious official as
easily as possible This was the only
way. outside of peremptory dismiss
al, to properly rebuke the persistent
insuborniation of the irascible IllinOi-
an, who constantly deported himself
in office as if he was lord of all he
surveyed.
1t is the gossip of the hotel and de-
partmental corriditors that some OPP
position is developing to the confirm
alton of Secretary Lamar's probable
nomination to the supreme bench,
chiefly on account of his advanced
age-he is entering his 63d year
and it appears that this feeling is by
no means confined to his political op
ponents. There is a disposition on
the part of several republican sena-
tors to raise a sectional cutlery
against the secretary on account of
his having within the past four years
championed the civil chieftain of the
southern confederacy, on the floor of
the United States senate.
1t is broadly intimated that the su-
preme court is equally divided on the
issue of the prohibition cases from
Iowa, Kansas and Georgia, and that
the new Justice will have to cast the
deciding vote-it now stands four to
four-nine being a full bench.
In the celebrated drive will case,
the supreme court has recently rem
dered a decision against the patentee,
who claims a royalty of ten dollars
each on all the driven wells in the
United States, the number beng es-
timated at three millions.
The deficiencies for the transport
alton of the mails amounted to from
eight to fifteen million dollars per an
mum few years ago but these defic-
its have been gradually reduced until
they now are no more than a million
year, so that by the end of the pres
ent year the post-office department
promises to be on a self-sustaining
basis.
Assistant Commissioner of patents,
Gen. Robert B. Vance, of n. c.,
brother of Senator Vance, is acting
as commissioner of patents during
the absence of Mr.. Hall, and he
makes an efficient official, being both
affable and popular, and fully equip
ped, by natural ability and by his ex-
perience in congress as chairman of
the committee on patents, to ably
discharge the responsible duties de-
volving upon him.
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